On Saturday, Sep 13, 2003, at 05:52 US/Pacific, Sara wrote:
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2. I have DB with 4-8 digits number in each line e.g.
1238483
92933
09983433
093
The truncate function truncates the file very abruptly
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well actually there are various types of DB's - some
such as SDBM_File will have 'informati
Sara wrote:
> open (DB, "+
> truncate (DB, 1024);
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> close DB;
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> 1. This truncate the file from bottom .. Is there a way the
> file can truncated from the top?
No. You have to rewrite the file contents to delete from the beginning of
the file.
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> 2. I have DB with 4-8 digits numbe
open (DB, "+
